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Just watched Sinners

Can anyone enlighten me on why they picked on Irish immigrants? Did blues get coopted by Irish historically?

I don't get it

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Irish being colonized, not coloni-zing.

Wouldn't it make more sense to make him British?

[–] regul@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The Irish were (are) colonized. They were originally an out-group, but were subsumed into "whiteness" at a later point in history.

Vampirism represents this assimilation.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

But now he's a colonizer (in the film)

The Irish today are some of the most respectable people against colonization. Just see their solidarity with Palestinians.

To paint them as colonizers seems wrong and offensive

[–] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

Joe biden's Irish and there are a lot more like him in the US than you might realize.

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

I think it's more that the original Irish person is himself a victim having been assimilated into a greater vampiric colonial entity, becoming its mouthpiece and mistaking integration for liberation

tbh that aspect of the movie is clunky as it makes it too easy to substitute "collectivist ideology" for the vampiric hivemind, especially in contrast to its glorification of bootstrapping individual heroism

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Irish today are some of the most respectable people against colonization.

the irish are, irish-americans were not. american history has MANY examples of americans with irish descent (as well as irish immigrants themselves) perpetuating "anglo" style colonization; the book "the great arizona orphan abduction" details a lot of it (and it's especially fascinating since it happened at the same time as nina).

[–] KnownUnknownKnower@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remmick had been "trapped" in the US for centuries. It's about how oppressed become oppressor through assimilation, which many irish americans did

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

This tracks with having him being hunted by Native Americans in his introduction. think-about-it

[–] regul@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Irish person living in America. Think more Irish-American, less Irish.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago